What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[gurnemanz]

Anton Rubinstein: Collected Songs and Duets, Part 1 (issued in 2007, Part II never sighted)
Mila Shkirtil (mezzo), Mikhail Lukonin (baritone), Yuri Serov (piano)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7984837--rubinstein-collected-songs-part-1

Another most delectable song discovery for me from the the Northern Flowers label (who also gave us Glazunov with the same artists). Neglected gems with lovely interplay in the duets.

[Mandryka]

Maurice Ohana, Si le jour paraît . . . On this YouTube, where you can see the performer pluck

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiXNAXAaB5U&ab_channel=speranguitar

Exotic music - I’m exploring two composers who are new for me at the moment, Maurice Ohana and Friedrich Cerha.

[RichardB]

I think Cerha's Spiegel I-VII is pretty much a masterpiece. Not sure about his more expressionistic later work though (with the exception of his completion of Lulu which I don't think anyone could have done better).

[Bryn]

Christian Wolff: Burdocks (Scratch Orchestra, Gentle Fire, et al, Cecil Sharp House, March 28th 1972, a copy of Bob Woolford's master tape (but with occasional drop-outs).

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315595160-64/christian-wolff-music-musicians-20-april-1972-8

[Joseph K]

Catching up on the 5th and 6th String Quartets by James Clarke (b. 1957), performed by the Arditti Quartet - to be found along with much else of interest at James's Soundcloud page

Finally getting round to listening to these...

[Mandryka]

I think Cerha's Spiegel I-VII is pretty much a masterpiece. Not sure about his more expressionistic later work though (with the exception of his completion of Lulu which I don't think anyone could have done better).

Thanks, will check it out properly soon. I've been enjoying the night music -- this especially

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXu2C6xXQE&t=1s&ab_channel=ThorstenGubatz

[Serial_Apologist]

Christian Wolff: Burdocks (Scratch Orchestra, Gentle Fire, et al, Cecil Sharp House, March 28th 1972, a copy of Bob Woolford's master tape (but with occasional drop-outs).

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapte...0-april-1972-8

Gosh - to have been there on that day! I rather fancy Cecil Sharpe's spirit smiling benevolently down on the occasion.

[Bryn]

Gosh - to have been there on that day! I rather fancy Cecil Sharpe's spirit smiling benevolently down on the occasion.

It was, indeed, quite an occasion. Unfortunately, the files I stumbled across only hold The concert's opening Verdi: Va, pensiero and Burdocks itself. The mid-performance interval show is missing I believe I have them on an old reel-to-reel taps but have no functioning way of playing that tape, if I can find it.

[BBMmk2]

What a concert! Some famous artists weee in the audience too, namely, Ralph Couzens, Sir Mark Elder and John Wilson. I wonder what other famous artists were there and at other concerts. I know Tasmin Little was at one of them, for the Yuja Wang Prom.

[Stanfordian]

Umberto Giordano
‘Andrea Chénier’ dramma di ambiente storico scritto in quattro quadri
Luciano Pavarotti (Chenier), Montserrat Caballé (Maddalena),
Leo Nucci (Gerard), Kathleen Kuhlmann (Bersi),
Astrid Varnay (Contessa di Coigny), Christa Ludwig (Madelon),
Hugues Cuénod (Fleville)
Welsh National Opera Chorus,
National Philharmonic Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly
Recorded 1982 Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
Decca, 2 CDs

[Mandryka]

I think Cerha's Spiegel I-VII is pretty much a masterpiece. Not sure about his more expressionistic later work though (with the exception of his completion of Lulu which I don't think anyone could have done better).

It's very good! Or at least, the first three are, I haven't heard the rest yet.

Do you have any opinions on the relative merits of the two recordings?

[RichardB]

Do you have any opinions on the relative merits of the two recordings?

As far as I can remember, the earlier recording conducted by the composer is a bit compromised by audience noise, which the later Cambreling one isn't.

[Joseph K]

Just now getting round to listening to part 2 of Mahler 3 - Boulez et al.

[pastoralguy]

Mahler. Symphony No.4

Les Siècles. François-Xavier Roth. Sabine Devieilhe, soprano.

Harmonia Mundi.

Very impressive!

[RichardB]

Szymanowski, Stabat Mater, a new release conducted by Michael Gielen. I hadn't knowingly heard this piece before. Quite a discovery.